The Great Ming Imperial Grandson: I Taught Zhu Yuanzhang to Be Emperor from the Start

Zhu Zheng transmigrates into an abandoned infant in the wilderness. With a single babyish smile, he wins Zhu Yuanzhang's favor, never realizing that he is the real imperial grandson, switched at birth with a civet cat!

When ten-year-old Zhu Zheng annotates a memorial with, "Hu Weiyong should be flayed with three thousand cuts,"

when, at thirteen, he leads the Embroidered Uniform Guard to raid a household, burning the granary before opening the cellar,

Zhu Yuanzhang realizes with a shudder: this kid has made the art of ruling an emperor's instinct!

"Grandpa, an emperor's suspicion isn't an illness. You just have to make the ministers think you might go mad at any moment."

"Grandpa, instead of killing Lan Yu, why not send him north of the desert to demand military provisions from the Northern Yuan?"

Then, on the night Zhu Biao dies,

Old Zhu kicks open the Eastern Palace doors and hurls the imperial seal of regency into Zhu Zheng's arms as he feigns illness to dodge his duties:

"Don't go trying to be some benevolent ruler like your father!

I need a tyrant who can keep that vicious tiger Zhu Di in check!"